Ivory Coast says to organise debt relief for state oil refinery – Reuters
(Adds quote, detail) Oct 19 Ivory Coast will organise debt relief for the state oil refinery using public and private funds, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. The Societe Ivoirienne de Rafinage (SIR) is the biggest refinery in French-speaking West Africa and has accumulated debts worth hundreds of billions of CFA francs (hundreds of millions…